In August, we posted a list of books that are becoming movies this year. The Book to Movie trend isn’t a new one. In fact, many banned books have been made into extremely popular movies.
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What is Banned Book Week?
Banned Books Week, Sept. 22 – 28, stresses the importance of preventing censorship and ensuring everyone’s freedom to read any book, no matter how unorthodox or unpopular. (ALA)
Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. More than 11,300 books have been challenged since 1982. (Banned...

Here’s a list of the most frequently challenged book for 2012 as complied by ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom. It’s not the first time that Dav’ Pilkey’s Captain Underpants (series) has hit the top 10 most frequently challenged books for a year. It was also on the lists in 2002, 2004, and 2005.
Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey. Why?: Offensive language, unsuited for age...

It’s almost time for the Health Insurance Exchanges to open. We’ve gathered some resources to help you understand the ins and outs of the Affordable Care Act.
Check out our page at http://bclibrary.org/affordable-care-act-nevada/.
We have links to the health insurance exchange for Nevada and Nevada’s Health Link, a site created to educate and help Nevadans through the process of buying healthcare...

A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home. (96 min; PG) [...]

A delightful meeting of music and poetry ranging from Shakespeare to Kerouac. In the tradition of the classical art song, where composers wrote music for the poetry to be sung, the chamber jazz duo Primal[...]